This study looks into the level of anxiety that middle school students have about PE class, dividing the classes into coed class and single-sex class and aims to conduct an in-depth analysis of differences in sub-factors of the anxiety. Subjects of the study were 554 students in randomly selected six middle schools located in Gyeonggi-do. To figure out the relationships among the sub-factors of the anxiety according to class, grade, academic record and the level of physical strength, a Multivariate Analysis of Variance model was set up and analysis was conducted. The results obtained through the research are as follows. First, it was predicted that the level of anxiety about PE class in middle school would have a great impact on the factor, 'punishment' by class (coed and single-sex). Second, it was predicted that the level of anxiety about PE class in middle school would have a great impact on the factors, 'anxiety about the event of sports' and 'conflict during class' by grade. Third, it was found that there was no difference in the level of anxiety about PE class that middle school students had according to their academic record in PE. Fourth, it was predicted that the level of anxiety about PE class in middle school would have a great impact on the factor of 'anxiety about the event of sports' by the level of physical strength.

Jang-Hwan Kim, Jin-Kee Park & Jae-Yeun Jung, Relation between participant desire in activities of physical education activities and cognition of high school students on class of physical education by sex and department. Journal of Sport and Leisure Studies, Vol. 12, pp. 215-226, 1999.

Yong-Sok Lee, The research of female high school students' perception concerning the physical education class: In the center of high school student in the areas of guri and nam-yang-ju counties. M.D. dissertation, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, 2001.